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Smika has disappeared but dave hayes, caring, determined, dedicated cop, never gives up. >> every year, he was bringing more information forward on my brothers case. it could be evidence like the shotgun shells and taking all of this evidence and re-evaluating it, reanalyzing it and bringing in new technologies, new forensics, in to see how that could be applied in this case, and he would go in every year with new evidence to the d.a.s. >> we wanted to bring the case to conclusion. no matter how...

On august 1st of 1983, i received a phone call from my brother, sam. he told me sid was gone, that he was killed, and murdered, and that he walked in and found him. >> the first thing the police look for in any type of a homicide scene is sign of a forced entry through the door or window, or a sign of a struggle, and they didnt see any sign that there had been an obvious burglary, robbery or assault in this apartment. that leads investigators to think that they should be looking from within, the...

In december of 2010, 27 years after sid wells was murdered, the d.a. signed off on an arrest warrant accusing thayne smika of murder in the first degree. >> after getting the warrant, we put together a coordinated search which included sending detectives to every place where there was members of the smika family or close friends of the smika family. unfortunately, the family without exception told us they did not know where thayne was and did not know how to locate him. >> i think mistakes were ...

And it went into the bathroom. >> in the downstairs bathroom, we noticed that there was a red ring in that toilet. >> an inference that the police had was that perhaps the shotgun used to murder sid wells had been cleaned in that toilet bowl. >> interestingly enough, the bathroom on the first floor was thayne smikas bathroom. what was most interesting to us was on the coffee table next to where sids body was found, we found a note and an envelope. the envelope had the numbers $300 written on it....

Jeff told us that his friend sid had been selling small amounts of cocaine in the previous months, and that sid had suspected that thayne smika was stealing cocaine from sid. its our belief that thayne smika that night didnt have the cocaine or the money to give back to sidney wells. >> im the father of a college student, and i think it would be very naive to not think that your college-aged son might be trying recreational drugs. he might sell recreational drugs here or there. its not a reason ...

Relief that we had solved the case, but within the next few days, the d.a.s office, who had approved the arrest warrant for mr. smika, came back to us and said that they felt there was not enough evidence. as a result, they wouldnt be filing the murder charges against mr. smika. bail was set and he was released. >> in order to help further the investigation, the boulder district attorneys office convened a grand jury into the murder of sid wells. at that time, thayne smika is essentially out liv...

>> the trail in the apartment went into thayne smikas bedroom and it went into the bathroom. >> in the downstairs bathroom, we noticed that there was a red ring in that toilet. >> an inference that the police had was that perhaps the shotgun used to murder sid wells had been cleaned in that toilet bowl. >> interestingly enough, the bathroom on the first floor was thayne smikas bathroom. what was most interesting to us was on the coffee table next to where sids body was found, we found a note and...

>> despite what we heard from thayne smika, no money was found on sidney wells person, nor was any money or cocaine found in the apartment. >> several days after the murder of sid wells, the police drove back to akron, colorado to search the house of thayne smikas mother. thayne smika was not at his mothers house at the time of the search. >> thayne smikas mother talked about some not very complimentary character traits. mrs. smika thought that her son may be a psychopath and may very well have ...

On august 1st of 1983, i received a phone call from my brother, sam. he told me sid was gone, that he was killed, and murdered, and that he walked in and found him. >> the first thing the police look for in any type of a homicide scene is sign of a forced entry through the door or window, or a sign of a struggle, and they didnt see any sign that there had been an obvious burglary, robbery or assault in this apartment. that leads investigators to think that they should be looking from within, the...